Species Androchela milvaria (Guenée, 1857)

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Regional Maps

• Scodiona milvaria Guenée, A. 1857. Uranides et Phalénites II. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 10 584 pp., 24 pls. [140: ibidem (1858), Atlas; pl. 8, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♂, Tasmania [probably near Hobart].
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP ♀, [Tasmania]: Tasmanie.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McQuillan, P.B. 1996. The Tasmanian geometrid moths associated with the genus Amelora auctorum (Lepidopetra: Geometridae: Ennominae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 433-506 [Atlas; pl. 8, fig. 8]

Generic Combinations

• Scodonia [sic] milvaria (Guenée, 1857). —
  Viette, P. 1950. Sur quelques espèces de Geométrides décrites par Guénée [sic] (1857). Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 19: 201-206 [205]
• Amelora milvaria (Guenée, 1857). —
  Meyrick, E. 1892. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 6(4): 581-678 [650]

Ecological Descriptors

Caterpillar: herbivore (associated flora: Acacia [FABACEAE] Wattle; Pultenaea Sm. [FABACEAE] egg and bacon, golden or bush peas).

Associated Flora References

McQuillan, P.B. 1996. The Tasmanian geometrid moths associated with the genus Amelora auctorum (Lepidopetra: Geometridae: Ennominae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 433-506 [501] (Acacia)

Meyrick, E. 1892. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 6(4): 581-678 (Pultenaea)

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